After a lengthy investigation, two people believed to be members of Anonymous hacker group have been arrested for allegedly hacking into government and corporate websites.

Police says a 40-year-old man from Western Australia has been charged with hacking into Melbourne IT Ltd's computer network in Brisbane and Indonesian government web servers, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports.

The 18-year-old man from Penrith was charged with hacking into NetSpeed ISP located in Canberra and ACT Long Service Leave Authority.

These two were reportedly involved in several cyber attacks which includes modifying the content of websites and disrupting access to many websites by launching Distributed Denial of service(DDoS) attacks. These attacks date back to 2012.

A number of computer hard drives and other computer equipments from the suspects' house have been seized by Police.

An infamous international computer hacker Farid Essebar has been arrested on Tuesday in Thailand, at the request of Swiss authorities.

Essebar, also known as Diabl0, 27 year old, who has dual Morocco-Russia nationality, was detained in Bangkok, according to the local news report.

He has been arrested on suspicion of taking part in a cyber crime which involves cracking banking systems and hacking online banking websites. The breach was resulted in damage of $4 billion to customers in Europe in 2011.

Thailand will send the suspect to Switzerland within next 90 days. Police are reportedly searching for two other gang members who involved in the breach.

This is not the first time he is being arrested. In 2006, he was sentenced to two years in prison. He was accused of spreading Zotob computer worm. CNN, ABC News, United Parcel service, NY Times and US Depart. of Homeland Security were among those affected by this worm.

Two Information Technology(IT) students have been arrested by Jaipur cyber crime police for hacking Data InfoSys e-processing system and fraudulently recharging BSNL mobile phones.

Kulshrestha Varma and Hardik Sud, both 19-years-old, students of APG University in Shimla, managed to recharge more than 500 mobile phones, causing loss of Rs.8 Lakh for the Data infosys.

According to Times of India, the students have used a public Internet cafe to breach the Data InfoSys' website. These two kids might have thought that police can't catch them, if they use a cyber cafe.

The company became aware of fraudulent recharges at the end of last year and filed a complaint in cyber police station back in December 3rd. Police took 75 days to crack the case.

Police has arrested and brought them to Jaipur on a transit remand. The police suspect involvement of several other people in this cyber crime.

After further investigation, the company update its report saying that 23-year-old Russian hacker named "Rinat Shibaev" is the original author of this malware and Sergey is member of technical support team.

In an interview with Russian news channel LifeNews, Shibaev has admitted that he had developed the BlackPOS(also referred as Kaptoxa) malware.

The hacker says he just took readily available program and developed it with additional features.

He allegedly got help in developing the malware from an unknown person whom he had met online. However, he said that he doesn't even know in which country the person lives.

The hacker also said that he created it for selling it to others, not to use the application by himself.

Security firm IntelCrawler has been analyzing the recent massive data breaches of Target and Neiman Marcus. The company said that it has identified the creator of the malware used in these attacks.

According its report, Sergey Taraspov, a 17-year-old boy from Russia, with Online handle 'ree[4]', allegedly first created the sample of the BlackPos malware in March 2013.

Initially the malware is referred as "Kaptoxa"("potatoe" - in russian slang) which was later referred as "Dump memory grabber" in underground forums by the creator. "BlackPOS" name came from the title used in C&C communications.

BlackPOS is a RAM scrapping malware totally written on VBScript which is designed to be installed on POS devices and steals all data from cards swiped through the infected system.

Based on its own sources, the organization determined that the first victim of the malware is Point of Sale(PoS) systems in Canada, US and Australia.

He has sold more than 40 builds of his creation to cyber criminals from Eastern Europe and other countries, for $2,000.

The hacker has created several hacking tools including a brute force attack and other malicious tools. He has also made some money with the training for DDOS attacks and Social network accounts hacking.

However, the organization said that the real cybercriminals behind the Target data breach were just customers of him.

Update:
After further investigation, IntelCrawler determined that the original BlackPOS malware is Rinat Shibaev. Sergey Taraspov is actually one of the technical support members.